First Unlocked solution to provide OpenStack billing and capacity
reporting

May 18, 2016 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

AUSTIN, Texas--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Talligent, the leading provider of billing and capacity management
solutions for OpenStack and hybrid clouds, has released Unlocked
certified Fuel Plugins for Mirantis OpenStack 6.1 and 7.0, with Mirantis
OpenStack 8 expected soon. Openbook is cloud management software that
simplifies the tasks of planning, charging, and predicting capacity
requirements for cloud services on OpenStack. Talligent gives the
administrator and tenant real-time visibility of cloud capacity and
accrued costs, as well as the ability to scale up or down according to
budget and resource requirements.

Talligent is excited to be the first reporting solution to achieve
Mirantis Unlocked certification and be packaged for easy deployment as a
Fuel Plugin. Mirantis Unlocked means that a solution has been tested by
Mirantis, confirmed to work with Mirantis
OpenStack, and offered to customers with validated deployment
tooling through Fuel. Fuel
is an open source deployment and management tool for OpenStack, recently
accepted as an OpenStack project.

“The Fuel plugin really makes deploying Openbook a snap in OpenStack
environments,” said Sanjay Mishra, CEO of Talligent. “By working closely
with Mirantis, we ensure compatibility with Mirantis OpenStack releases
and support their customers’ needs for actionable reporting regarding
the cost and capacity of cloud resources.”

Openbook v3 is Talligent’s latest release and is available for
evaluation upon request. The Openbook Fuel plugin packages and
documentation can be found online:

"Openbook from Talligent is the first cost-reporting solution to
validate under the Unlocked program, and fills an operations gap for
OpenStack cloud deployments. It complements other forms of metrics in
managing cloud operations and costs, internally and in customer-facing
ways," said Kamesh Pemmaraju, VP of Product Marketing at Mirantis.
"We're excited that Talligent is a Mirantis Unlocked partner and that
they're taking advantage of Fuel to make Openbook deployment and
integration simple and reliable."

Talligent is billing and capacity management for OpenStack and hybrid
clouds. Talligent empowers enterprises and service providers to deploy
production ready OpenStack clouds by providing visibility and control of
cloud infrastructure consumption. This includes communicating key cost
and capacity data to users, administrators, and management in an
automated and actionable way through dashboards, reports, APIs, and
portals.